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‘I wouldn’t wish that on anybody’: ’62 Mets hurler has sympathy for White SoxSep 14, 2024 12:51 pm - An original 1962 New York Met, Grayslake native Jay Hook reflects on the team’s infamously dismal inaugural season and discusses the 2024 White Sox as they approach the Mets’ record for losses in a season.
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Early research shows impact of cashless bail less than many hoped or feared
Sep 14, 2024 12:40 pm - SPRINGFIELD – One year after Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate the use of cash bail, the impact on the state’s criminal justice system appears to...
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‘People who should be held are being held’: Pretrial Fairness Act marks first year this weekSep 14, 2024 12:36 pm - One year after cashless bail went into effect, proponents say the new law has accomplished what they intended which is to detain violent offenders awaiting trial. Opponents, including one county sheriff, call it a “failed and flawed law” and say it has placed more people in custody and increased courtroom caseloads.
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Chicago woman charged with prostitution at Geneva spa
Sep 14, 2024 12:21 pm - A Chicago woman faces criminal prostitution charges after a Geneva police investigation led to her arrest on Wednesday, police announced Friday.
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Apple seeks to drop its lawsuit against Israeli spyware pioneer NSO
Sep 13, 2024 10:55 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — Apple asked a court Friday to dismiss its three-year-old hacking lawsuit against spyware pioneer NSO Group, arguing that it might never be able to get the...
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North Korea reveals uranium site as Kim Jong Un demands more nuclear weapons
Sep 13, 2024 10:55 pm - SEOUL — North Korea on Friday shared photos of a secretive facility used to produce weapons-grade uranium as leader Kim Jong Un called on his country to “exponentially in...
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Vessel rescued in English Channel after emergency call to Dover, Delaware, instead of Dover, England
Sep 13, 2024 10:54 pm - DOVER, Del. — Police dispatchers in Delaware’s capital city are being lauded for helping direct rescuers to a boat foundering in the English Channel thousands of miles aw...
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Biden meets with British leader and brushes off Putin’s threats about weapons for Ukraine
Sep 13, 2024 10:54 pm - WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden brushed off a threat from Russian leader Vladimir Putin about war against the West if Ukraine’s allies allow it to use weapons deeper ins...
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US says Russian state media outlet runs intelligence operations
Sep 13, 2024 10:54 pm - Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russian state media company RT is now being deployed by the Kremlin to conduct cyberintelligence and covert influence operations ac...
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Harris says she is different from Biden because ‘I offer a new generation of leadership’
Sep 13, 2024 10:53 pm - WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris, who presents herself as the candidate of change as she runs for president against Republican Donald Trump, said Friday that she...